Sunday, August 4, 2013

Some Links: Week of August 5, 2013

Includes the video interview with the highly articulate, Iranian-American, Muslim, academic author that launched this book on its trajectory to the top of both the Amazon bestseller lists and the New York Times Top Ten.

... Europe has needlessly
pushed the whole EMU bloc into a deep double-dip recession, and the
longest unbroken contraction since World War Two.

If the EU must maintain a monetary union over a hugely diverse economic zone with limited labor mobility due to language and cultural differences, then a mechanism is required for adjusting wages to maintain an equality of regional competitiveness.

Such a mechanism would be provided by periodic adjustment of all wages, salaries and bonuses on a national or regional basis according to national or regional unemployment rates.

Greece, with a 64% youth unemployment rate evidently needs something like a 50% across-the-board wage cut. The more competitive Germans, and some others, need an across-the-board pay raise to reduce their competitiveness to that of the EMU mean.

Variation in the value of the Euro relative to that of the US dollar, the renminbi, etc., would then adjust the competitiveness of all nations within the Eurozone relative to the rest of the world, thereby insuring low unemployment across Europe.

Odd, really, for an evolutionary biologist to value a social system for its capacity for intellectual innovation, rather than its capacity to ensure the survival of those who live by it.

From an evolutionary perspective, Britain's post-Darwinian atheistic, materialistic belief system has been a disaster that has led to policies of self-genocide through the destruction of the family and the promotion of mass immigration. Islamic societies, in contrast, continue to expand in population both internally and beyond their own borders.

A further disastrous development during Britain's post-Christian era has been the transformation of public education from a meritocratic ladder for the advancement of the most intellectually able, to a system whose primary function is politically correct indoctrination, with inevitably, catastrophic consequences for real education in Britain.

In this connection, it is interesting to note that Since Walter Gilbert won a Nobel Prize in 1980, only one indigenous Briton affiliated with Trinity College, Cambridge, England's premier center of scientific research, has won a Nobel Prize in a real science (Dawkins's criterion of intellectual merit). Other Trinity scholars to win a Nobel science prize since 1980 are among the fine non-indigenously British people who now increasingly occupy the main places of power and privilege in Britain's multi-culti, mass-immigration society. For example, Sir Aaron Klug, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.

The best hope the English have of surviving as a racial/biological entity may be to convert on mass to Islam. At least then they would be rid of their pro-porn, pro-homosexual, anti-family, anti-reproductive ideology promoted by the likes of Richard Dawkins.

Why does the United States, a country supposedly committed to the rule of law, promise not to torture one of its own citizens when torture is explicitly prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Obviously because it is has no commitment to the rule of law and is seen by the World to have no commitment to the rule of law, and thus has been led to the humiliating expedient of promising, in order to get their hands on Edward Snowden, not to torture him.

What makes the incident doubly humiliating to the United States is that their demand that Russia extradite Edward Snowden was rejected, quite reasonably, since as David Lindorff relates, abusive treatment amounting to torture is precisely how the United States Government dealt with Bradley Manning, who has been convicted of crimes similar to those with which Snowden has been accused.

During an era of off-shoring of manufacturing and services, of automation and computerization, what need is there for so many tedious members of the middle-class or slobbish workers, Americans, Brits, Cheese-eating Frenchies or whatever? Obviously there is none. They just take up space and use the resources that rich people want for themselves.

So just keep feeding them the porn, cut their real earnings through massive money creation, and encourage every kind of perversion of the sexual impulse. As for the work that needs to be done, bring in Third Worlders who work for less, and set the masses against one another, immigrant versus "racist" native born, instead of against their crooked masters.

Real wages have fallen in 36 of the 37 months since David Cameron became prime minister, according to new data. The figures suggest the average worker will have lost the equivalent of £6,660 in that period.

Wow! Who could have guessed that exporting the manufacturing sector and much of the service sector to the Third World while bringing in millions of Third Worlders to undercut the wages of British workers would have lowered wages?

No, folks, this is all very surprising. It could never have been predicted. Heck, not a single Nobel Economics prize winner predicted it.

But, hey, look on the bright side: corporate profits are up, for as David Ricardo said long ago, "wages and profits, together, are always the same," or more directly, wages down, means profits up — as a matter of logical necessity.

And if anyone thinks a Western democracy is run for the benefit of wage earners ... LOL.

No, if democracy meant anything in Britain today, Cameroon and a number of his predecessors would by now have been consigned to the Tower of London pending a public beheading.

Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest
men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated
publications to the Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and
other businesses.

Is anyone rich enough to buy a newspaper a fit person to own one?

No doubt most of the public is sufficiently brainwashed by the media to think a billionaire is the ideal person to control a major organ of the "free" press.

Amazon, founded by Bezos, ranks among the biggest spenders among high-technology companies seeking to influence the work of the federal government.

“They have a huge number of issues before the federal government and now he’s bought the hometown paper for covering those politicians,” said Bill Allison, editorial director for the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based watchdog group. “There’s always a concern you’re going to have a conflict when you have wealthy publisher. Given all of Amazon’s issues, it’s hard to see where Bezos won’t have a conflict.” (Source: Bloomberg).

Now Americans don't have to do crappy jobs like make shoes and shirts, computers and car parts for one another.

Instead, they have time for better things, collecting welfare, or running up student loans, for example.

And fighting racists who think national policy should serve the interests of the native population not the global plutocracy and their business school mouth-pieces who insist on the freedom of the rich to manufacture where wages and workplace safety are lowest, sell where prices are highest, and take profits where taxes can be avoided altogether.